Wednesday
Feb232011
Spring collection
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 1:23PM It's almost here.
You will like it. It's pretty darn nifty.
And you will be surprised.
And that's all I have to say about that. The end.
Just kidding.
Let's have a naming contest, shall we? You suggest possible colorway names. If I use one of yours, I'll send you a free skein of that colorway. When you make a suggestion below, please be sure to enter your email address so I can contact you if you win. (Your email address will not be visible to anyone but me.)
Have at 'em!
Reader Comments (188)
Flights of Fancy
Butterfly Dreams and Simple Things
Firefly Skies
Chasing Rainbows
Possibilities
Parasol
Front Porch
Maypole
Flower Garland
I want to suggest:
Lollipops
Cherry Pie
Strawberry Rhubarb
Petal Shower
Dandelion Wine
April Showers
Sunnyside Up
Easter Basket
Chocolate Bunny
Mint Jelly
Sprout
Greener Grasses
Sunshower
At Bat
Red Sox
Cracker Jack
Cockleshells
The Rose In Bloom
Yarn In Bloom
Spring Frolic
Garden Whimsy
Forest Fancy
Woodland Wanderings
Meadow Meanderings
Rainbow Roamings
How beautiful! I can hardly wait - I just love your colorways. Those bright, decadent, delicious pictures keep reminding me of Thackeray's luscious Vanity Fair (one of my all-time favorite books). The title name would be great, or the name of the main character, Becky Sharp (a truly brilliant character). They also remind me of Jane Austen's flirtatiously pretty novel Emma. And something about them is really bringing to life Shakespeare's sparkling "Twelfth Night" and its heroines Viola and Olivia. (Have you noticed that I've really been enjoying my British Lit class?) Still, those lovely pictures also make me think of the novels by the Edwardian American author Gene Stratton-Porter, whose beautiful, romantic books really bring nature to life. The wonderful, iridescent characters from her books "The Harvester" and "A Girl of the Limberlost" would make fitting names for any yarn as lovely as those photos. And I have to say that they really evoke the piano piece I'm currently playing, Debussy's ethereal "The Maid with the Flaxen Hair", and the one I'm about to start, "Clair de Lune".
So my favorites are:
-Vanity Fair
-Becky Sharp
-Emma
-Viola
-Olivia
-Ruth (a character from "The Harvester")
-Limberlost
-Elnora (a character from "A Girl of the Limberlost)
-Maid with the Flaxen Hair
-Clair de Lune (trans. "Light of the Moon")
Thanks for letting us in on the yarn-naming fun! I've had such a great time thinking up these names. I can't wait to see the new collection...
I thought of one more:
Rose of Sharon
(seems rather fitting, somehow!)
Alexa
Oooooh, Spring; here are my suggestions:
Castalia - a nymph who was pursued by Apollo
Jamaica - Indian word meaning "isle of springs"
Marcella -Spring Calendar month was named after
Zelenka: Czech, "green, new, fresh, innocent"
Bronwen - Welsh
Fleur - Welsh for flower
Demeter is the Goddess who makes the earth bloom and grow beautifully in the spring and summer. Persephone, her daughter was the goddess of spring growth.
Bernadette was a French peasant girl who had visions of the Virgin Mary and who uncovered a spring near Lourdes where people experienced miraculous cures
Aurora - the Princess in Sleeping Beauty - the latin meaning is dawn
Cinderella!
Jasmine
Amora - love
Valentina
Cherish
Ruby
Sanguine
Hopefully one will call itself to a specific colorway!
Thank you!
Quiet morning
Awake
Return
Peace is mine
Namaste (not necessarily a spring word, but one I love all the same...roughly translated as "all that is in me honors all that is in you")
Warmth unlimited
Ozone (which is the smell after a really good thunderstorm...I envision gray blues!)
This is hard! So many good names have already been shared. I can't wait to see the collection!
Dandelion dust
Clover cacophony
Earthworm ecstasy
Lilac lust
Forsythia frenzy
Snowdrop symphony
Tulip tenderness
Raindrop rhapsody
Spring sanctuary
Eclat
Spices and roses
Murmure de printemps
Active Spring ( Stop snowing, let's shining!)
"Mr. Darcy"
"Elizabeth Bennet"
"Cecily"
"Algernon"
"The Importance of Being Earnest" (or "Earnest")
"Oscar Wilde" (or "Wilde" or "Oscar")
"Abigail"
"Meadowlark"
"Finch"
"Atticus"
"Hounds of Spring"
How about "All's right with the world" from a Robert Browning poem.
Every spring is the only spring
A little Madness in the Spring
Poise Folly
Crisp
Peek of Pink
Robust Buds
The fruit of his folly
If that strikes anything interesting :)
I know you like to use names, so here are some that I like:
Aibhlinn
Eoin
Grace
Jack
Lincoln
Max
James
And one of my favorite words at the moment: Reciprocity. It's just fun to say. :)
Crocus Field
Spring Thaw
Misty Lake
First Camping Trip
Road Trip Blues (because I don't have any planned)
Parade Day
Wearing Flipflops over Patches of Snow
First Sunburn
New Growth
Gwilan from Patrick Ball's Gwilan's harp and Turlough for Turlough O'Carolan
Sproing!
Pulitzer. ... The colors remind me of the spring-breezy designs of Ms. Lilly Pulitzer. :)
Mona had a lot of good ones:
Flights of Fancy
Butterfly Dreams and Simple Things
Firefly Skies
Parasol
Maypole
I also like:
Lolipops
Sprout
Cockleshells
Clare de Lune - I love that song
Murmure de printemps
Namaste
Poise Folly (I don't know what it means but it sounds good!)
Reading through everyone elses made me want to think up some more of my own:
Hermoine (from harry potter!)
James Tyberius Kirk
Serenity
Fireflies
River
Kite
Jonah
And some french phrases that are fun to say.
- L'Amoureuse - "lam-eh-roose" - (the lover)
- un lapin du jardin - "ah lapeen du szhar-DON" - (a garden rabbit)
- une souris dans la maison - "on soo-ree don la may-zone" - (a mouse in the house)
- les couleurs du printemps "lay coo-LER du PRAN-tah" - (the colors of spring)
- Je sens la pluie - "szhuh sahn la ploo-EE" - (I smell rain)
- toutes les fleurs - "toot lay fluh" - (All the flowers)
Oh what the heck. EVERYthing sounds good in french! Except for the french word for "beef," which sounds like the sounds like a burp.
I'll love anything in French or Irish. The two most beautiful languages in the world! They both feel so good rolling off my toungue!
Bees in Flight
Little Lamb
Gone Away the Gloom, Welcome in the Spring
Spring Peepers
Sun's Kiss
Flower Poetry